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WARNING: Contains War of the Worlds stuff

Mid years finally over. Nuts, chuaH was right. I fell asleep for 5 min during the chinese paper, although I doubt it affected my performance. Thank God GP and Chinese the compo topics were relatively easy... haha....

On thursday, of course we got suan-ed by the non-chinese taking people *chuaH, you good* OSSIS went out to parkway and had a lot of fun so I heard... but Maurice and I, as well as Daniel and Liang Sheng went to FM for fencing. Happy happy, Under 17 was postponed. Yay. On the bus we were talking a lot of nonsense... And discovered our chinese vocab was considerably inhibited.... To conclude a detracting statement maurice stated "Ni zhe ge you xue de ben ren" in other words, "you b10*dy 1D*0+". Nice translation man

Nothing much to note except I lost every bout trying to go for people's hand. Although the epee target area is the whole body, the skill in epee is to hit the very small parts very fast and accurately... especially for short people like me... Going for the leg, foot or hand. But (theres always a but) I HAD to get injured (if I don't break a blade, usually I'll get injured).

This time was with Daniel. I fell prey to his running attack but somehow managed to conduct a classic circular six to lock his blade away from my body and arc my blade behind my head to do close quarters. But just as I thought I got the point, my backward momentum carried me into the wall behind at high velocity. I bounced off the wall and landed on my back, curving it agonizingly. I thought I'd been paralysed initially till the pain died away to a dull ache. And its still there now.

Oh man, I really regret that. I really really hope I'm still operational for U-17.. Sighz... Its difficult to walk without feeling abnormal now lar... Back injuries are notoriously difficult to mend. But a few classmates as well as my church friends are praying for me. I hope God heals me quickly if its his will.... Must keep trusting...

Last night I slept in a horizontal sediya position and this morning I did the paper sitting totally upright, watched the movie sitting up striaght and not shaking my leg... sad man... Sorry to say I wasn't in the best of moods just now cos I was brooding over it.. I am kinda angry at myself, first at my accident, and second at the lack of body control that I exhibited.

Anyway I should stop whining. Oh yeah, the movie. We watched War of the Worlds, abeit slightly against the wishes of XunAi, Stella and Gerry... Its ok I suppose.... Quite Americanized... Replacing Leatherhead and the Thames in the book with Boston and the Hudson River in the show... The Fighting Machines are also different... Force Fields this time... Whereas in the book they were indestructible because of sheer armour and inadequacy of the British Artillery. At least in the book the Shepperton battery killed one, while the torpedo ram Thunder Child sacrificed herself to take down the other two.... The Thunder Child sequence in the book was one of the most heroic battles I've read in fiction.

Here's the lyrics of the song "ThunderChild" from the War of the Worlds Soundtrack:

There were ships of shapes and sizes
Scattered out along the bay
And I thought I heard her calling
As the steamer pulled away
The Invaders must have seen them
As across the coast they filed
Standing firm between them
There lay Thunder Child

Moving swiftly through the waters
Cannons blazing as she came
Brought a mighty metal War-Lord
Crashing down in sheets of flame
Sensing victory was nearing
Thinking fortune must have smiled
People started cheering
'Come on Thunder Child'
'Come on Thunder Child'

Lashing ropes and smashing timbers
Flashing Heat Rays pierced the deck
Dashing hopes for our deliverance
As we watched the sinking wreck
With the smoke of battle clearing
Over graves in waves defiled
Slowly disappearing
Farewell Thunder Child!
Slowly disappearing
Farewell Thunder Child!
Farewell Thunder Child!
Farewell Thunder Child!

The Heat Rays were more like lasers, but less gory than in the book.... Vaporizing its victims instead of frying them with fire.... But the whole story was distorted lar... The only parts that followed was the fact the Martians finally died cos of protozoa. They combined Oglivy, the artilleryman, and the curate together. Pow. The ending was rather abrupt. If I hadn't read the book I wouldn't know what was going on....

After that hung around outside the arcade before pushing off home to cell group... At the later part of the day my back was really quite painful... I was so so irritated... my EQ must have been darn low... I was converting back into my lower sec. introverted me.

Yup thats about it.

I really really wished somehow I could make people happy. Be a First Aider for the mind also. I wish I could take away whatever was troubling certain people. But I can't. Only God can. I cannot counter stress while I myself have stress. I'd just be hypocritical.

But I wish I could. Really really really.